Anthony Spoleto

Anthony "Tony Black" Spoleto (1953-2008) was a longtime caporegime of the Ancelotti crime family who was murdered by the rival McReary crime family in the Inwood salvage yard bombing of 2008; his family blamed the Albanian Mob for the murder.

Biography
Anthony Spoleto was born in Little Italy, Manhattan, New York City in 1953, the son of Italian immigrants. He became a criminal at a young age, being arrested for hijacking at the age of 16 in 1969. Spoleto became an enforcer for the Ancelotti crime family of the American Mafia during the 1970s, and he was arrested for importing tobacco in 1972, for promoting gambling in 1973, for manslaughter in 1974, and for racketeering in 1985. As a veteran criminal, he became the favored caporegime of the Ancelotti family, and he was chosen to manage the family's relations with its Albanian Mob muscle. In 2008, the rival Pegorino crime family hired the Irish Mob to murder Spoleto in a way that would make it seem like the Albanians did it; Gerald McReary had Niko Bellic plant a bomb under Spoleto's car as he left a meeting with the Albanian muscle in Lower Manhattan. Bellic tailed Spoleto to Grummer Road in Inwood, where he detonated the car bomb, killing Spoleto and several other gangsters. The Italians blamed the Albanians for the murder, given the timing of Spoleto's death, leading to war between the two former allies.